More in my response than needed to address your question, but it's all relevant
to eBirders.
Sounds like you are having some sort of issues with your computer rather than
with eBird. Nothing has changed with eBird, if anything it's easier than ever
to submit data both from ebird improvements and the reviewers making things
better. Filters are constantly being adjusted, often making the limits higher
for less flags. However filters are set at the county level, and in a lot of
cases, several counties constitute a filter. Thus there are odd parts of
filters with a unique/limited habitat or elevation and something is on the
"rare" list because it is very local in occurrence in the filter region but
everyone knows said species breeds at that location. These types of reports are
easy to submit comments for and for us to validate.
Great Blue Heron will never come up as rare in TN. If you tried to submit (blue
form) great blue, that'll be rare since its the default subspecies and I
removed it from the filters statewide back in the fall. It's completely
redundant with "great blue heron". If you had a blue heron form other than
blue, then you should find the appropriate subspecies!
To that end, I removed most of the default subspecies from the 36 filters
statewide because they are redundant and using them assumes observers know how
to identify every subspecies and that every individual was looked at to confirm
the subspecies. Example, no one looked at 2000 coots to confirm all were
red-shielded, thus saying all were red-shielded in a list is wrong. Heard only
downy woodpeckers in TN should never be submitted as "eastern downy" because
you didn't see the bird to confirm it's not a "rocky mtns downy" that basically
has a 0% chance of occurring in the state. No reason to submit them as
easterns. Having default subspecies listed in addition to the regular species
name is confusing to the user as well. There were a lot of subspecies in
filters that probably 99.9% of us didn't know existed, myself included. Many of
these are the only subspecies in N America, so there's really no reason to have
them all listed. There's more to this but that's the skinny.
Like I said, more here than to simply answer your question (if it answered it
all), but all connected and may be of interest to folks.
Scott Somershoe
Statewide eBird lead for TN
Littleton CO
Sent from my iPhone
On May 30, 2018, at 5:46 AM, NELL MOORE <moorephotography@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Anyone know what's up with ebird? Anyone having issues lately entering data?
Those of you that know me know I am a huge believer in records, however,this
is getting too much like WORK! Getting below response (pasted here) while
trying to update/ enter recent records. Have had a lot of issues with
"filters" lately also. Getting discouraged as really don't have time to enter
all anymore with all the glitches. A few days ago, had to enter details on a
"Great Blue Heron" as RARE at Cove Lake? What? Use only home computer for my
entries. No interest in using phone to enter while in the field. Thanks.
HTTP Status 404 – Not Found
Type Status Report
Message /ebird/home
Description The origin server did not find a current representation for the
target resource or is not willing to disclose that one exists.
Apache Tomcat/8.5.23
